Most students have their preferences of jobs they’d like to do. 1Unlike those kids, I flounder between one career or two.
2On one hand, I aspire to an Ivy League vocation:
3professor of the sciences in higher education.
4But like noble amphibians that thrive on land and in the stream,
5I’ve got another world of which I like to gladly dream.
6Some say that it’s abnormal; my affections are exclusive.
7In science, they say, emotions are something quite elusive.
8My systematic brain says I can span the two dimensions:
9science book procedures and painting skill conventions.
10Quite flexible, I switch between a microscope and brush;
11I find that others tend to choose and stick with only one.
12That renders me what science calls a special rarity—
13like a fossil that still frolics or an unknown masterpiece—
14Where one wants inspiration, a force that’s quite profound,
15the other needs analysis to prove its facts are sound.
16Teachers say they’ve never met a kid who overlaps
17a love of science with a flair for portraits, arts, and crafts.
18But to me, art seems like science; they are singular; however,
19science, at its best, is quite a beautiful endeavor.
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Identify the poetic form of this passage.
A)It is a sonnet written mostly in quatrains.
B)It is a lyric poem written mostly in quatrains.
C)Is is a sonnet written mostly in rhyming couplets.
D)It is a lyric poem written mostly in rhyming couplets.

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.  

the correct answer is the following.

one of the groups i belong to is the boy scouts. this is a problem-solving group because it has tasks that we need to solve in order to other people in different activities such as the rescue of lost pets, or elder people in need.

the other group i belong to is kids pro environment, and is an information-sharing group that tries to create conscience about the risks and problems that generate pollution in our cities. we share information to other students and parents on the importance of keep our communities clean and our skies clear.  

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.

remember, the goal of an adjective clause is to add more information to a noun or a pronoun. as you can see from the examples above, you can add information by including a longer adjective clause or tighten up a sentence by turning the adjective clause into an adjective phrase.